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Patch 26.16 raises the cost of early support roaming
Riot increased the penalty for supports taking minions outside bot lane through level 5 and redistributed quest progress between champion combat and creep score.
Why it matters
Riot says very early roamers were functioning like a second jungler instead of meaningfully participating in lane. The change makes that strategy more expensive, but post-patch roam rates and quest completion timings are not yet established.
What the sources establish
- Support quest stack consumption on champion or turret damage is now 18 for the first tier and 21 for the second.
- Creep-score stack consumption changed from 15 and 20 to 18 and 21.
- The outside-bot-lane minion experience and gold penalty changed from 25% through level 3 to 33% through level 5.
Reaction
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What is still unknown
- No verified post-patch roam-rate or quest-completion data is attached.
- No directly verified player, coach, analyst, or community reaction sample is attached.